To seal off the news of Shen Yuan's appearance, the Director of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau personally went to Cloud Prefecture to suppress the restless aristocratic clans. He even paid Old One, the Book Immortal, with a fragment of Langhuan Pavilion.
Barely half an hour later, an edict issued from the Golden Luan Hall, ordering the collection of information on all great powers and immortals associated with tigers within the past ten thousand years.
Clearly, Emperor Xia and the Director of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau had not realized that the so-called Tiger-Riding Immortal was entirely an accident.
Qing Prefecture, by Dongting Lake.
The Tiger-Riding Immortal recorded in the memorials was now sitting by the shore, discreetly supporting his lower back.
"Sure enough, legends can't be trusted!"
"Riding even a cat is this exhausting. If anyone tells me tigers can be used as mounts again, I'll pick a fight with him on the spot!"
Shen Yuan had only used the maine coon as a mount because he found traveling too troublesome and wanted to slack off a little. Reality, however, gave him a crushing blow.
As the purest kind of feline, a maine coon's spine rose and fell like a spring when it ran.
Brief contact was bearable, but after sitting on its back for too long, that rising and falling spine became torture.
Especially since the maine coon rode the wind at tremendous speed, its springing spine made Shen Yuan feel as though he were riding an ultra-fast roller coaster.
After crossing mountains and ridges all the way here, Shen Yuan felt as if his entire body were about to be shaken apart. Even a Refining Essence Realm cultivator, whose physique far surpassed that of ordinary people, could not endure such torment.
What made it worse was that Shen Yuan